vLLM Inference Meetup Vienna
vLLM Inference Meetup in Vienna
Hosted by Red Hat AI, NVIDIA, NTS, and Canva, this event takes place on 12 March 2026 in Vienna, Austria.
Huge thank you to NTS Netzwerk Telekom Service AG for providing the venue for this meetup. Join their NTS Data Day before the meetup; learn more here.
What to Expect
Deep technical sessions from vLLM maintainers, committers, and teams using vLLM at scale
Live demos focused on real workflows
Hands-on workshop option earlier in the day
Great networking with food and drinks
Who Should Attend
vLLM users and contributors
ML and infra engineers working on inference and serving
Platform teams running GenAI in production
Anyone curious about efficient inference across local, cloud, and Kubernetes
Agenda
Optional Workshop
15:30 — Doors Open (Workshop Attendees)
16:00 – 17:00 — Hands-On Workshop: Latest GenAI Compressing Techniques in Practice
Meetup Program (Subject to More Awesomeness)
17:00 – 17:30 — Doors Open, Check-In
17:30 – 17:40 — Welcome and Opening Remarks
Saša Zelenović, Sr. Manager of Developer Marketing & Advocacy, Red Hat AI
17:40 – 18:00 — Intro to vLLM and Project Update
Michael Goin, vLLM Maintainer and Principal Engineer, Red Hat AI
18:00 – 18:20 — Transforming LLM Quantization
Dan Alistarh, Professor at ISTA & Researcher, Red Hat AI
18:20 – 18:40 — A Brief Tutorial on Speculative Decoding
Eldar Kurtić, Principal Research Scientist, Red Hat AI & ISTA
18:40 – 19:10 — Tackling Inference at Scale with vLLM, NVIDIA Dynamo, and llm-d
AI Engineers from Red Hat AI and NVIDIA
19:10 – 19:20 — Coffee & Tea Break
19:20 – 19:40 — Communications in MoE architectures
Dan Blanaru, AI DevTech Engineer, NVIDIA
19:40 – 20:00 — Real-World vLLM Case Study from Canva: Wins and Challenges in Hosting LLMs for 260 Million Monthly Users
Georg Narodoslawsky, MLOps Engineer, Canva
20:00 – 21:00 — Networking, Food and Drinks
Important information
Agenda is subject to change. We may add extra demos or lightning updates.
Registration closes 24 hours before the event. We cannot admit unregistered attendees.
Please bring a photo ID to verify your registration on arrival.
See you in Vienna
If you are building, deploying, or scaling inference, this is the room to be in.
See you soon!